Nice natural substrate in this gorilla pit. I'm sure that this zoo will still be around in another decade, as the animal rights movement is a slow process in many countries of the world.
I just came back depressed from a visit one year later and loaded a new impression in my Flickr-album with the folowing text:
"A visit to Pata "zoo" one year later: as there’s a stalemate and the owner has all play-trumps in hand as the Thai laws seems to be insufficient to close down the whole disconsolate collection of animals they are still suffering in their poor and disgraceful "accommodations".
Any renewing/renovation and/or maintenance cannot be established which is giving the premises more and more a poor looking and depressing appearance.
Some terrariums and cages are empty and several snakes are exposed as plastic.
The penguin is still showing himself alone since all his colleagues died a bit more than one year ago.
A pity!"
I hope my English is understandable. Here is a link to the complete set of almost 100 photo's. With the photo's is lots of text and are lots of links. Furthermore some Googling can give scepticism I think a bit of demotivation!
Well, i would like to see more of the exhibits, because with the right angle you can make many cages look horrible Not saying this zoo would be good, but just saying
But unfortunately this "zoo" doen't make any difference in between day- and night quarters and a real day doesn't excist there due to the (heavily poluted) sun-"shades"
As I cannot manage to get the specific photo in (a deleted video appears which isn't mine), please go through my Flickr-"Pata" set.
Oh, and yes, once they tried to make his miserable live a bit more "attrative" after his maid died a couple of years ago, by placing a TV-set, but in fact he had already ropes and tires. I think his companion is better off now!
I saw on monkey world or something that this place was indeed shut down. thanks for putting up the photos, after seeing the place i wanted to look into it more.
I wouldn't be surprised if it had been shut down though. The factual basis of this article seems intrinsically flawed. To say there's no cruelty at a zoo keeping a lone gorilla in a 10 x 10 metre cell with a sunroof which is opened only 'sometimes' seems highly contradictory.
I wouldn't be surprised if it had been shut down though. The factual basis of this article seems intrinsically flawed. To say there's no cruelty at a zoo keeping a lone gorilla in a 10 x 10 metre cell with a sunroof which is opened only 'sometimes' seems highly contradictory.
This must have been around a year ago that i heard it. Im sure it even showed the cages empty.... hmmmmm. I doubt that there would have been two zoos on the top of a building in Thailand. I remember it clearly. they showed the orangs, mandrills and breifly the gorilla.
I guess it wouldnt have been hard to open it back up again unfortunatly with loop holes in Thailands law.
This zoo is DISGRACEFUL. And sadly, it remains forgotten by the likes of PETA and other animals rights groups. Why? Because it's been placed in the "it's too hard" basket.
